Bangladesh Medical Research Council (BMRC)
A controlled clinical trial was conducted to determine whether combined exercise training and diet alone reduce blood pressure (BP), body weight and body mass index (BMI) in three weeks.Twenty eight patients with diastolic UP~ 110mmHg were assigned to a hypertensive group and another 28 subjects with diastolic BP~ 90 mmHg were subjected to the same intervention as control group (normotensive group). Exercise training and diet reduced diastolic BP by 24.7 mmHg and systolic UP by 32.8 mmHg in hypertensive group. There was a mean decreased of 5.3 mmHg in the diastolic UP in the normotensive group (PdI.OOI). The systolic BP decreased only minimally. The weight loss ranged from 1kg to 3 kg in hypertensive and 1kg to 2kg in the normotensive…